Here at COTTonLINE we love irony, situations where someone starts out to accomplish one thing and in fact ends up helping the opposite occur. Today I’m thinking about Obama’s help for Iran - cargo pallets of cash - and how that helped bring about the Abraham Accords signed in Washington a day or so ago.
Iran of course used that money to cause trouble in the region, fund their armed proxies in Yemen, Lebanon, the Palestinian areas, Syria and Iraq. This belligerence worried the Sunni Arabs enough for leaders in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to decide they needed militarily buffed Israel as an ally against Iran.
Hence the Abraham Accords. Once again the region’s age-old mantra proves true, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend, or at least my interim ally.”
Obama was an even bigger loser than we understood him to be. He intended to help Iran and ended up helping to unify Arab opposition to Iran.
Meanwhile, President Trump keeps driving nails into the coffin representing Obama’s legacy of failure. It’s failure that Joe Biden - in his lucid intervals - aspires to reanimate and extend.
